Work on Newman’s Taco Bell restaurant is continuing. Construction crews were working on the exterior over the weekend. Completion of the new restaurant, located in the West Side Marketplace Shopping Center, is anticipated by the end of February.

GUSTINE - Some of the remaining vestiges of Gustine High’s long-cherished “Redskin” nickname is about to go into history.

The slope along Hills Ferry Road adjacent to the Merced River at the confluence of the San Joaquin River was recently reconstructed through a $1.1 million Merced County project. The work moved the river channel away from the roadway, which was in danger of washing out due to continuing erosi…

NEWMAN – A state-of-the-art meteorological station is putting real-time weather data in the hands of local students.

NEWMAN - The drug testing procedure used by First Student, the firm which provides transportation services for the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District, was pointedly called into question Monday when company officials went before the school board to address a December incident in whi…

Dense fog blanketed the West Side Tuesday morning. Above, motorists emerge from the curtain of gray while approaching a Highway 33 intersection in Newman.

An attorney well known in local government circles is among candidates seeking to succeed incumbent Jim DeMartini as Stanislaus County’s District 5 supervisor.

Two new ambulances will soon be added to the West Side Community Ambulance fleet.

NEWMAN - Corporal Ronil Singh was remembered Thursday evening by community members, representatives of surrounding law enforcement agencies and his fellow Newman Police Department officers, one year to the day after he was shot and killed during a traffic stop.

The Gustine City Council recently presented a proclamation in memory of Adelyne DeGregori. The proclamation recognized DeGregori for her more than three decades of service as a City Hall employee and for her community contributions through the years. Mayor Pat Nagy presented the proclamation…

GUSTINE - Two Modesto residents were arrested Tuesday, Dec. 17 for the burglary of Borrelli Market in Gustine earlier that day, police reported.

Volunteer Manuel Vaz helped load food for delivery to needy families in the Gustine Unified School District Saturday morning.

GUSTINE - Christmas came knocking at the doorsteps of dozens of local families in need Saturday morning.

A Bonita School fifth-grader is being commended for reporting to authorities that the bus he was riding Monday afternoon, Dec. 16, on his way home from school was being driven erratically.

NEWMAN - A caring community helped brighten the holiday season for local families and seniors.

NEWMAN - One year has passed since Newman Police Corporal Ronil Singh was shot and killed during a traffic stop of a suspected drunken driver on Christmas night 2018.

The Gustine High band presented its winter program Thursday evening, Dec. 12, in the school auditorium.

GUSTINE - Students at Gustine High who incur multiple school suspensions will face longer periods of ineligibility from extra-curricular activity under a policy presented to the school board at its Dec. 11 meeting.

GUSTINE - The generosity of a caring community will help brighten the holidays for those less fortunate once again this Christmas.

NEWMAN - A candlelight vigil for fallen Newman Police Corporal Ronil Singh will be held Thursday evening, Dec. 26, on the one-year anniversary of his death.